Category: Marcus’s Meditations
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The Point of Thought
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius Our thoughts are more or less the first domino that is tipped over. Bad thoughts lead to worse…
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We get what we deserve
“Attend to the matter which is before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You get what you deserve: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.” – Marcus Aurelius Meditations VIII: 22 Most of us aspire to be better…
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Death Acceptance
“Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law mankind has that is free of all discrimination.” – Marcus Aurelius We will all die and it is fair. In life, many things are not fair and I do not need to list them out. But death will…
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Return to the Wise Road
“Be not unhappy, or discouraged, or dissatisfied, if you do not succeed in acting always by the right principles; but when you have failed, try again, and be content if most of your acts are consistent with man’s nature. Love that to which you return; do not return to philosophy…
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Stoic Series: Prepare
Labor not unwillingly, nor without regard to the common interest, nor without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor express your thoughts with studied eloquence. Be neither a man of many words, or busy about too many things. Make the divinity within you guardian of a living being, manly, of ripe…
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The Process of Happiness
If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you were bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, but satisfied to live now…
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Stoic Series: I choose to be hurt?
Take away your opinion, and there is taken away the complaint, ‘I have been hurt.’ Take away the complaint, ‘I have been hurt,’ and the hurt is gone. – Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Chapter IV:7 Someone says something mean to you intending to hurt your feelings. They are there to be…
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Stoic Series: Change My Mind
If any man can convince and show me that I do not think nor act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance. – Marcus Aurelius Meditations VI:21 Are we after…
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